Intern: "Hey Awlex, this function I'm using doesn't work. Can you help me?"
Me: "This function doesn't do what you are expecting. Did you even look at the docs for this function?"
Intern: "No."
Me: "... then start with that"

RTFM with extra steps!

@magicMirror so I read the Kama Sutra, but it didn't help me with my programming. Did you really mean for me to RTFM?

@Demolishun WTF kind of dev work you are doing for the kama sutra to be TFM?

@magicMirror In what reality is the Kama Sutra not the TFM?

@Demolishun Can we do a client exchange?

@Awlex @magicMirror

What do you all think F stands for in RTFM?

@Demolishun
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@Demolishun (adult) fun

@Demolishun well apparently it isn't frog because my boss got all angry when I was reading a book on amphibians after senior dev told me to rtfm

My favorite response for juniors has become "What did Google say?". That usually stops the conversation because they don't want to say they didn't Google it.

Feel free to replace Google with documentation, wiki, readme, etc.

So much of helping junior ppl is just teaching them how to Google lmao